The path to liberation requires both individual effort and the support of the spiritual community.

If you want to climb a mountain, begin at the top.

When you see forms or hear sounds fully engaging body-and-mind, you intuit dharma intimately.

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma.

In our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess.

Whatever we do, we should see ourselves. Reading books doesn't show us our defilements. Watch yourself. Watch your mind.

Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.

The path of practice moves from faith through understanding to direct realization.

To carry yourself forward and experience myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and experience themselves is awakening.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

The basic teaching of Buddhism is the teaching of transiency, or change.

The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

True freedom is not the absence of commitment but the presence of choice.

The more we understand the nature of our mind, the more we understand the nature of our world.

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening. If you doubt fully, you will awaken fully.

What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.

The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

Don't be a bodhisatta; don't be an arahant; don't be anything at all. Being something makes you suffer.

The true person is not anyone in particular. But like the deep blue color of the limitless sky, it is everyone, everywhere in the world.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

When one sees with wisdom that all phenomena are empty of inherent existence, one is liberated from suffering.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.

The best way to solve a problem is to help someone else solve their problem.

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Birth and death are neither two things nor one thing. Life is not an appearance, death is not a disappearance.

The more you meditate, the more you understand yourself and the better friend you become to yourself.

External seeking only leads to exhaustion. When you imitate others, you lose your own authenticity.

Enlightenment is not about becoming divine. Instead, it's about becoming more fully human.

When we see the nature of the mind, we see that we are not our thoughts.

Suffering is not the end of the story; it is the middle of the story.

The purpose of Buddhist practice is not to become a Buddhist but to awaken to the nature of reality.

Concentration develops naturally through continuous noting. Don't try to force concentration to arise.